Donald Trump is famous for making high-profile deals using other people’s money. Sometimes those other people are not his business partners or lenders but rather the taxpayers. For a figure who is seen to epitomize unfettered entrepreneurship, he has been relentless in his pursuit of government financial assistance dirtdiggersdigest.org
Attracting international investors while repelling undesirable migrants: since the Great Recession of 2009, these two preoccupations have dominated the European agenda. Given the havoc wrought by austerity programs and the ongoing ordeal of asylum seekers, what possibilities does the near future hold, for the European Union and for the left’s ability to challenge its current […]
Discussions about building a green future tend to focus on the need to improve the generation of energy from renewable sources. But that is just the first step. Better mechanisms for storing and releasing that energy are also critical. And, contrary to popular belief, it is the public sector that is leading the way toward […]
NEAR FUTURES ONLINE, the online companion of Zone Books’ Near Futures series, is a forum dedicated to the analysis of the challenges borne out of national governments’ and international institutions’ responses to some critical events nearfuturesonline.org
La controversia è nata con l’ordine imposto ad Apple da una corte federale statunitense di predisporre un software per ‘decriptare’ i contenuti dell’iPhone di uno degli autori della strage di San Bernardino. Un “caso difficile”. Una rassegna delle principali basi normative a sostegno delle diverse posizioni www.eticaeconomia.it
I dati mensili Istat riportano un notevole eccesso di decessi nel 2015 rispetto al 2014. Ma nell’analisi ciò che si è tardato a mettere in luce è che in questi anni si è registrato un incremento degli individui in tarda età, ossia la maggior parte di chi è a elevato rischio di decesso www.epiprev.it
Per contrastare le conseguenze negative del cambiamento sulla sicurezza alimentare, in un contesto di crescente competizione per la terra, l’acqua e l’energia, è necessario mettere in sinergia le politiche per la sicurezza alimentare con quelle di adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici o di loro “mitigazione” www.eticaeconomia.it
E se non fosse il virus Zika la vera causa dell’aumento di casi di microcefalia registrato nel nord-est del Brasile? A sollevare il dubbio sono alcuni medici argentini e brasiliani: il responsabile potrebbe essere un certo larvicida prodotto dalla Monsanto, messo nell’acqua potabile per controllare le zanzare www.terraterraonline.org
Trust in institutions is necessary for the well functioning of modern democracies and the maintenance of institutional arrangements but it is not equally distributed among populations. The article show that trust hasn’t declined equally across European countries, and the decline varies among individuals with different socioeconomic backgrounds www.opendemocracy.net
An interesting email conversation about the problems of EU level democracy between the German Green MEP Sven Giegold and Yanis Varoufakis who had just launched its “Democracy in Europe Movement 2025”. Social Europe reproduce the email conversation, which was also published by Sven Giegold on his website www.socialeurope.eu